 However, Barton left the ILP soon after to form a local branch of the British Socialist Party, and the ILP reaffiliated the following year.At the start of World War I, both Trades Councils supported Army recruitment campaigns, but from 1916, the Trades and Labour opposed the war.In 1917, it passed a motion congratulating the Russian people on the February Revolution, and in December, another congratulating "the Socialist Proletariat of Russia on their present achievement (i.e.